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E-Resources Gateway
Databases for the Research Library

The E-Resources Gateway presents all of the libraries' electronic resources for researchers within the research library and freely from anywhere around the world.

Key
Green - Connect freely from anywhere in the world.
Blue - Must connect from within the National Gallery of Australia.
Black - Ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

 

• Library catalogue
• Libraries Australia
• Full-text Resources
• Full-text Serials
• Indexes and Abstracts for Serials
• Image Databases
• Auction Sales Catalogues

 

Full-text Reference Resources

Artcyclopedia
Lists 8,500 artists, indexes 2,300 sites and provides access to 180,000 works of art.

Artlibraries.net
Metasearch interface across a number of European web catalogues.

Australian art obituaries index
A listing of obituaries for Australian artists and art professionals based on information received in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library since 1990.

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
Over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.

Britannica Online
Full premium access through subscription.

Geoscience Australia Place Name Search
A database of Australian place names; includes map, latitude/longitude, and other descriptive data.

Dictionary of Australian Artists Online
An open access and dynamic scholarly reference work with over 7000 biographies.

Dictionary of Art Historians
A biographical dictionary of scholars, museum professionals and academic historians of art.

Oxford Art Online
The full text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, linking to searchable image databases and editorially selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world.

Oxford Reference Online
Offers quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by world-famous authors. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.

Prints and Printmaking  Australia Asia Pacific
Prints and printmaking database by artists from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Asia and the Pacific.

ProQuest ANZ Newsstand
A selection of full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand covering regional and international topics.

Wikipedia
Collaborative encyclopedia.

 

Full-text Serials

ART Full Text 
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world with full-text coverage for selected periodicals

Factiva Full Text
Requires login.  Contact Reference Desk.
Factiva offers world wide access to 10,000+ full text newspapers and business serials including regional publications.

JSTOR Arts & Humanities III
Contains 150 full text archived serial titles relating to the arts.

Australian Public Affairs
An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.  It is based on journal indexing produced by the National Library of Australia and published by RMIT Publishing.  It covers from 1978 to the present and indexes a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books.  Scroll down to this title.  You can also search Humanities & Social Sciences Collection simultaneously and will retrieve citations.

 

Indexes and abstracts for serials

Artbibliographies Modern
ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention.

ARCH
Password required. Contact Reference Desk
The Australian Architecture Database (ARCH), produced by the Stanton Library, North Sydney Council, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from material held by the Stanton Library, North Sydney Council from 1980 onwards.

AustArt
Australian art journals index.

AVAD:  Australian Visual Arts Databases
Password required for first-time login. Contact Reference Desk
Contains biographies on over 22,000 Australian visual artists, including over 5,800 Indigenous artists. Includes NATSIVAD, ARTEX, OzBiogs, AustArt (Australian Art Journals Index)

Bibliography of the History of Art
The database includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art from 1975 to 1989.

Design and Applied Arts Index
Design, crafts and applied arts.  1973 –

 

 

Image databases

The National Gallery of Australia
Works of art from the National Collection

Bridgeman Art Library
Images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists representing museums, galleries and artists. Linked from Grove Art.

The Getty:  Explore Images
Works of art from the Getty.

Matapihi
Images from the New Zealand galleries and libraries

PictureAustralia
Australia’s major historical picture collections.

 

Auction sale finding aids

Australian Art Auction Records 
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The largest and most extensive database of Australian & New Zealand paintings sold at auction since 1973. Searchable by artist with titles, prices and graphs.

Australian Art Sales Digest
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The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of past auction results offered for sale in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty-five years of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists. Data covers over 1,500 auction sales from over 50 auction houses, and extends back to the early 1970s.

Artfact
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Artfact Professional collects unabridged auction catalogs from more than 500 prestigious fine auction houses around the globe. It adds the actual selling price results in order to create the most comprehensive online database of auction results (more than 10 million) for researching art, antiques and collectibles.

Artnet
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This online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,200 galleries in over 250 cities worldwide, more than 100,000 works by over 25,000 artists from around the globe.